Russia killed Navalny with exotic frog poison rather than some more mundane method because they want everyone to know it was them without admitting it openly. It is a very Russian form of public execution - just like the polonium killing of Litvinenko in central London in 2006

As Russian losses continue to mount in Ukraine, the Kremlin has reportedly ordered Yandex Maps to begin blurring cemeteries in order to conceal the number of fresh graves

Russia is becoming increasingly reliant on foreign fighters in the war on Ukraine as its forces sustain more losses than they’re able to replace, says Britain’s Defence Secretary John Healey www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Good to see Kyiv Mayor Vitali Kiltschko giving Russia’s invasion the correct genocidal framing amid all the delusional talk of negotiations and compromise peace. Putin currently has zero intention of ending the war

Putin is suffering huge losses for minimal gains in Ukraine, but he knows any compromise peace that guarantees Ukrainian independence would be viewed in Russia as an historic defeat. The Kremlin dictator is trapped in a war he cannot win but dare not end www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrain...

The International Olympic Committee decision to ban Ukraine’s Vladyslav Heraskevych is a textbook example of the Streisand Effect. Without the ban, nobody would have noticed his helmet honouring Ukrainian athletes killed by Russia. Thanks to the ban, it has made global headlines

Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych made international headlines with his remembrance helmet and put the Russian invasion of Ukraine back on the front pages around the world. This was a significant Ukrainian success in the information war and a textbook example of the Streisand Effect

Putin is trapped in a war he cannot win but dare not end. He gained less than 1% of Ukraine in 2025 while losing 100,000+ soldiers, but he knows that any peace deal short of complete Ukrainian surrender would be viewed in Moscow as a major Russian defeat www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrain...

The US has made clear to Ukraine that it will not finalize a deal on security guarantees to protect Ukraine from future Russian aggression until Kyiv and Moscow reach an overall agreement to end the war, reports POLITICO www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

The funeral of Ukrainian veteran Hryhorii Shykula and his three children Ivan, Vladyslav, and Myroslava was held today in Kharkiv region. The four family members were killed earlier this week in a targeted Russian airstrike on their home

“Putin is no doubt well aware that any peace deal based on the current front lines of the war would leave 80 percent of Ukraine beyond Kremlin control and free to integrate into the democratic world. That is exactly what he is fighting to prevent.” www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrain...

This speaks volumes. Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy tops a new US opinion poll of world leaders, while Putin is second to last. Americans overwhelmingly sympathise with and support Ukraine - if Trump did the same, it would be one of his most popular decisions

Russia sustained around 9,000 more battlefield losses in Ukraine than it was able to replace last month, according to assessments from Western officials, signaling progress toward Ukraine’s goal of eliminating more Russian soldiers than the Kremlin can recruit www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych has been disqualified from the Winter Olympics after refusing to back down over his banned helmet, which honours Ukrainian athletes killed by Russia. His stance has succeeded in drawing international attention to Russian war crimes

An overnight Russian drone strike has killed three toddlers and their father and also injured their pregnant mother in Ukraine's north-eastern Kharkiv region www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“Russia’s South Caucasus.” Something has gone seriously wrong at the Washington Post

Ukrainian sports minister Matvii Bidnyi has told Sky News that allowing Russia back into World Cups would be legitimising Vladimir Putin's war of aggression news.sky.com/story/ukrain...

“Remembrance is not a violation.” Ukrainian Olympian Olena Smaha shows her support for teammate Vladyslav Heraskevych, who has been banned from wearing a helmet at the Winter Olympics honouring Ukrainian athletes killed by Russia

Ukraine climbed one place to 104th position among 182 countries in the latest edition of Transparency International’s annual Corruption Index. This middle ranking indicates room for improvement but makes a mockery of Kremlin efforts to portray Ukraine as hopelessly corrupt

The owner of telegram will be as outraged at this as he was about preventing CSAM on other social media platforms.

The International Olympic Committee has banned Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych from wearing a helmet at the Winter Olympics featuring images of Ukrainian athletes killed by Russia

Cash flows from Russian oil and gas exports have dwindled to lows not seen in years, new data shows abcnews.go.com/Business/wir...

Russian officials are warning Putin that a financial crisis could arrive this summer www.yahoo.com/news/article...

The International Olympic Committee has banned Ukrainian Olympian Vladyslav Heraskevych from wearing this helmet honouring the memory of Ukrainian athletes killed by Russia. If you disagree, please share this post

“Better to spend a winter with generators, than a lifetime with degenerates.” The mood in Ukraine as Russia bombs the country’s vital civilian infrastructure in a bid to freeze Ukrainians into submission

Ukraine’s State Emergency Service workers are performing miracles in arctic conditions as Russia attempts to freeze the civilian population. This Poltava region hero was literally encrusted in ice during recent rescue efforts Photo: Olha Serafymovych

On the eve of Ukraine’s 2004 Orange Revolution, Putin was the most popular foreign politician among Ukrainians. After 20+ years of escalating Russian aggression, now nobody hates him more. Putin’s war against Ukraine is not just a crime - it is a blunder of historic proportions

Ukrainian soldiers have posted a video mocking Russia after yet another failed flag stunt in the village of Ternuvate in Zaporizhzhia region. Russian commanders are notorious for sending troops on suicidal flat-planting assaults to create content for fake propaganda victories

Death by cold: Russia is attempting to freeze millions of Ukrainian civilians #Ukraine

Nothing is more certain to prolong the war than telling Putin that Europe will deploy troops to Ukraine as soon as he agrees to a ceasefire www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrain...

New BILD poll: should the West provide more military and financial support to Ukraine if Russia is not willing to agree to a ceasefire and peace negotiations?

Putin views the Ukrainian capital Kyiv as the “mother of Russian cities” and openly boasts that “all Ukraine is ours.” Anyone who believes his imperial ambitions can be satisfied by sacrificing the rust belt towns eastern Ukraine is deluding themselves www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrain...

The best hope of forcing Putin to stop his genocidal invasion is to push Russia toward bankruptcy. The $12 trillion partnership deal that is reportedly being negotiated with the US is the exact opposite

“Putin’s weaponization of winter mirrors Stalin’s use of famine against Ukrainians. Both atrocities are rooted in chilling genocidal logic that treats the existence of a separate Ukrainian nation as an existential threat to Kremlin imperialism.” www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrain...

A group of men from Guernsey in the UK have joined forces to send a generator "big enough to power a small village" to war-torn Ukraine. The generator will be stationed in the Odesa region www.bbc.com/news/article...

#Belarus No transit of potash. No lifting EU sanctions. Don't sell illusions that it will "stabilise" the regime. What it stabilises is its capacity for provocations. Sanctions don't topple regimes but they contain them: raising repression costs and shrinking military capacity.

“The closure of the Washington Post’s Ukraine bureau is a major blow to coverage of Europe’s largest war since WWII.” Business Ukraine editor Peter Dickinson joined Kyiv’s Телеканал Київ24 as the Washington Post dramatically reduces its international correspondent network

“Anything less than complete control over Ukraine would be viewed in Moscow as a major Russian defeat.” Business Ukraine editor Peter Dickinson joined Factum.Info in Kyiv to discuss why Putin cannot risk a compromise peace. LINK: youtu.be/Vnl1_H1BD24?...

Russian logic: attempting to freeze millions of civilians to death by methodically bombing Ukraine’s heating and power systems in midwinter is fine. But when Ukraine tries to assassinate a Russian general tied to war crimes, that’s terrorism

Ukrainian police have recovered a downed Russian bomber drone located on the icy surface of the frozen Dnipro River

“Moscow has reportedly moved the goalposts again and is now insisting all countries recognise the Donbas as Russian.” Business Ukraine editor Peter Dickinson joined BBC News as a new round of US-led Russia-Ukraine talks failed to produce any breakthroughs toward peace

Prince Harry has an awesome collection of Ukrainian Armed Forces unit badges on display at his California home

Ukraine’s drone force claims to have killed over 30,000 Russian soldiers in January 2026 based on video evidence of strikes

“It is a great illusion that reaching an agreement with Russia on some line of demarcation could lead even to a temporary peace.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/w...

In my opinion the talk about security guarantees is just a way to fool Ukraine into signing a "peace" agreement that let Russia win the war while Ukraine is made to believe it's safe. Just like the Budapest Memorandum but far worse.

Russian war bloggers are imploding today as Elon Musk cuts off the Russian army’s Starlink systems. It is incredible that the Russians allowed themselves to become so dependent on a communications system controlled by their main geopolitical adversary

“Putin’s winter bombing campaign is clearly a crime against humanity. The only question is whether it qualifies as genocide.“ Business Ukraine editor Peter Dickinson joined Egypt’s Q News as Russia continues to methodically target Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure amid arctic weather

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy: “Russia exploited the US proposal to briefly halt strikes not to support diplomacy, but to stockpile missiles and wait until the coldest days of the year, when temperatures across large parts of Ukraine drop below -20°C (-4°F).”

Fascinating deep dive into Russia’s recruitment of “disposable agents” to safe hybrid war across Europe: “There’s also no clear end in sight. Even if the war in Ukraine comes to a close, Russia will still regard Europe as a strategic adversary.” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Yesterday he was tortured in Lukashenka's prison. Today he's in Kyiv helping Ukrainians. Aliaksei Kaplich - one of #Belarus's youngest former political prisoners, deported by the regime - is now volunteering at a Belarusian aid hub. He is Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya's relative.